Space for New Transhuman Voices

What are we about as members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association?
It is clear from past surveys that we have numerous individual purposes
and goals, but here is a short description from the MTA website:

It
appears that, as members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, we
aspire to be advocates. Advocates for whom and to whom? This is a
question I think about on occasion. Clearly we are not an organization
for everyone, but if we are trying to build a future Zion and lift up
all of humanity, I think we would do well to make sure that we are
including voices far beyond the middle class, white, American, Mormon
corridor, tech savvy male that is heavily represented among the board,
voting members, and MTA conference presenters and bloggers. There are
some good things happening in this regard. We have at least two female
board members. We have numerous, prominent non-Mormon and former Mormon
members. We have heard critics of Mormon Transhumanism speak at MTA
conferences. But if we are to reach significantly beyond our biases, we
likely need to do much more to seek diverse voices and make room for
them in Mormon Transhumanism.

I understand the ease of
calling for diversity and the much greater difficulty of achieving
diversity, but since I think this is an important discussion, I'm going
to bring up what I see as some institutional barriers to giving voice to
diverse voices in the MTA. Maybe others will suggest additional
problems and possible solutions to problems I can't see, and maybe we
can find ways to make this organization I'm proud to belong to even
better.